Jessica Goodheart

Jessica Goodheart is Director of LAANE's Repower LA project, which successfully advocated for increased investment in energy efficiency programs that lead to good jobs and savings for struggling communities at the country's largest municipally-owned utility. Jessica has served as LAANE’s Research Director, authoring numerous studies. Before joining LAANE in 1997, she managed a U.S. EPA-funded project that evaluated a non-toxic alternative to professional dry cleaning. Jessica worked as a reporter in the early 1990s, writing stories for the L.A. Times, the LA Reader and the Village View. She received a B.A. in history from Columbia College in 1989 and, in 1995, an M.A. in urban planning from UCLA, where she helped to organize a union for teaching assistants and other academic student employees. She is the author of Earthquake Season, a book of poems.

Jessica Goodheart: In order to address our environmental challenges, the ocean liner otherwise known as DWP must make a rapid turn away from imported water and fossil fuels toward a more local water infrastructure and clean energy resources.

Jessica Goodheart: DWP has about half a million customers who are eligible for its low income programs. Yet 40% of eligible customers aren’t enrolled and the program’s monthly subsidy has not been increased in years. Los Angeles DWP

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Michael Krikorian: There may be more doomed locales in town – the coroner’s identification room, a hospice where the only hope is that the end will soon come – but, for a mass gathering of gloom, nothing beats the CJ crowd on a Sunday.